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At the current dollar-ruble exchange rate of 23.5:1, 7,000 rubles amounts to $297.87.
That’s the average monthly wage of a petrochemical worker in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region, just west of the Urals on the border of Siberia. The major metropolis...
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